Professional Biographical Information:

André B. Barbic joined the University of Georgia in 2006 as the assistant director of the Dean Rusk Center - International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies.

Barbic assists in all aspects of management at the Rusk Center as well as with developing organizational linkages and increasing student involvement in and public awareness of the center's efforts.  He also supervises publications, including the center's newsletter and Occasional Papers Series, advances initiatives for overall institution-building and organizes center conferences and lectures.

Barbic was instrumental in establishing the Georgia Law Summer Program in China, an ABA-approved study abroad program, which he currently administers.  Partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai, this program provides a unique opportunity for study in both of China's two largest cities. Barbic also helped to establish several internship opportunities at leading law firms in China for UGA law students participating in the summer initiative.

Before joining the Rusk Center's staff, Barbic served as a summer associate with the law firms Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi in Atlanta and Zhong Xin in Shanghai.  In Atlanta, he worked primarily on matters related to property insurance defense. In Shanghai, Barbic drafted banking contracts, assisted in the negotiation of real estate transactions and conducted research on aviation law issues.  Between 1998 and 2002, he worked as a conference officer for the Secretariat of the United Nations, where he served as a liaison between the U.N. Secretariat, delegations, nongovernmental organizations and the press.  At the U.N., Barbic worked with several different assemblies and committees, including the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Sixth Committee on Legal Affairs.  After completing his first year of law school, he returned to the U.N. as an intern in the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) during the summer of 2003.

Barbic earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Georgia, where he served as conference editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and as co-president of the Georgia Society for International and Comparative Law.  He earned his undergraduate degrees in theatre and philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago.  Over the past 15 years, he has performed in more than 40 theatrical productions in Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago and New York.  He has also acted in several independent films, one of which was recently screened at New York's Anthology Film Archives.